PA Consulting has announced the addition of technology and development engineering company Cooper Perkins has joined the firm. The company will be chiefly supporting PA clients in the areas of health, life sciences, and consumer sectors, according to PA Consulting.
The addition will boost PA Consulting's end-to-end product engineering capabilities as part of its end-to-end innovation offering. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The move is PA Consulting's second acquisition this year, having acquired San Francisco design firm Astro Studios this past June.
"It's great to welcome Gerhard Pawelka and the Cooper Perkins team to PA to strengthen our competitive offering in end-to-end innovation. Cooper Perkins' commitment to honoring engineering aligns with our own brand values, and we look forward to working together to continue creating ingenious products and solutions for our consumer, health and life sciences clients and other industries," says Ken Toombs, CEO at PA Consulting.
Cooper Perkins was founded in 2001, and has offices in Boston and San Francisco. The Cooper Perkins team will now work in partnership with PA Consulting's Global Innovation and Technology Center in Cambridge, UK, 2018 acquisition Essential Design in Boston, and Astro Studios in San Francisco. The firm says Cooper Perkins' product engineering strengths will complement PA's innovation capabilities to ensure client needs are met from idea generation to commercialization.
"PA Consulting is today exactly what we imagined Cooper Perkins growing into over the next several decades. We are thrilled to join our new friends at PA, and our old friends at Essential and Astro, to help shape an exciting new future. Our team's expertise is founded in a deep understanding of physical sciences and mathematics principals, and we use our engineering expertise to uncover solutions to particularly vexing problems. We look forward to tackling the toughest client challenges as a part of PA," says Gerhard Pawelka, Cooper Perkins CEO.
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